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California High Court Sets Rules for Facebook Subpoena
"“Even assuming the lower court finds a good cause, it is not enough that the defendant wants the discovery when a federal law bars it and there are other…
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Back to School? Look Out for Covid-Tracking Surveillance Tech
"“Often when measures are introduced for a specific purpose, they linger on because people become acclimated,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
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Would You Trust a Lawyer Bot With Your Legal Needs?
"“As soon as there’s some complexity or some resistance by the system, the automation is unable to handle it,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
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A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
""Since the Golden State killer case kind of exploded, we've seen there are risks to law enforcement authorities wanting to have access to that da…
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This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as “privacy protests,” where individuals want t…
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Donald Trump Says He’s Going to Ban TikTok. But Can He Actually Do That?
"With any internet platform, “we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,…
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As facial recognition draws scrutiny nationwide, Stanford research raises questions closer to home
“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Co…
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Police Requests for Google Users’ Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
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Austria’s online hate speech law prompts question marks about ‘overblocking’
"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interv…
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GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police
"“The acknowledgement of an issue is a start, but if a ‘resolution’ means simply correcting the error, there are many questions that remain,” Elizabeth Joh…
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The coronavirus is exacerbating a crisis on social media. Human rights activists could pay the price.
"The rapporteurs’ message, according to Stanford researcher Daphne Keller, was that “using filters in this context is going to take down news reporting. It…
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Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant pr…